The use of social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook in 21st century has become ubiquitous. In recent years, the number of users of Facebook has increased exponentially. AscomScore, a company specialized in media measurements and headquartered in Reston, VA reported, the unique visitors of Facebook site in US was about 2 million in November 2004. Exactly one decade later, the number has grown approximately 50 times to 102 million (comScore 1). By September 2015 the unique visitors of Facebook site was 216 million with Facebook rankingnumber 2 out of the top 50 Multi-Platform sites in the US(comScore 2). This expansion of unique visitors let Facebook to transform how people around the world communicate, disseminate information, and interact
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Many studies have shown that for most part adolescents that are online on social networking sites such as Facebook use the sites to maintain their existing friendship (Elizabeth and Lacey180). Also as reported by pew research in 2012, 91% of teens who use social media including Facebook, post a photo of themselves (Pew Research Center 12). This indicates that the youth’s use of Facebook is mostly driven by external qualities such as fame, beauty, self-image, rather virtuous …show more content…
As the authors Barbro and Martin argued in the article titled “Why virtual friendship is no genuine friendship” both virtuous agents must be honest and not idealize the mutual friendship between them. The authors provided an example of three people in which one of them named Alice is a friend of both of the other two through social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook. When Alice connects with the LinkedIn friend, they maintain honest relationship that is beneficial to both. But when Alice connects with the Facebook friend whom shared Alice her interest in gardening, Alice occasionally shares pictures of her garden with the friend. The Facebook friend complements Alice solely to get more pictures about the Alice’s secrets in gardening (Barbro and Martin 206). As this example demonstrates Alice is sincere about the relationship, however the Facebook friend is not. Alice’s prospects are driven by pleasure and the positive feedback she gets back from the Facebook friend. On the other way around, the friendship is motivated by
Many studies have shown that for most part adolescents that are online on social networking sites such as Facebook use the sites to maintain their existing friendship (Elizabeth and Lacey180). Also as reported by pew research in 2012, 91% of teens who use social media including Facebook, post a photo of themselves (Pew Research Center 12). This indicates that the youth’s use of Facebook is mostly driven by external qualities such as fame, beauty, self-image, rather virtuous …show more content…
As the authors Barbro and Martin argued in the article titled “Why virtual friendship is no genuine friendship” both virtuous agents must be honest and not idealize the mutual friendship between them. The authors provided an example of three people in which one of them named Alice is a friend of both of the other two through social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook. When Alice connects with the LinkedIn friend, they maintain honest relationship that is beneficial to both. But when Alice connects with the Facebook friend whom shared Alice her interest in gardening, Alice occasionally shares pictures of her garden with the friend. The Facebook friend complements Alice solely to get more pictures about the Alice’s secrets in gardening (Barbro and Martin 206). As this example demonstrates Alice is sincere about the relationship, however the Facebook friend is not. Alice’s prospects are driven by pleasure and the positive feedback she gets back from the Facebook friend. On the other way around, the friendship is motivated by